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Why would anyone complain sitcoms are less family friendly now, thats asinine. The most popular sitcoms are Modern Family, Big Bang Theory and The Middle, all family shows. Those are good shows but theres mostly crappy mush on now. I'm glad the REALLY bad mushy family sitcoms like Full House, Family Matters, Growing Pains etc are gone, they were horrible and the weird religious nuts who miss them disturb me; hell is most likely like the bland unrealistic world these sitcoms inhabit. I wish they had more shows now like Married with Children, Roseanne, Murphy Brown, Titus etc.
My 11yo daughter loves full house, we watch it all the time. The "family" shows have now moved over to disney channel. There are some cute ones on there. Some of them remind me of the 80s era family comedies.
You are right, many of the comedies morph into a bunch of sex jokes. This is not always entertaining even for adults.
My husband and I LOVE to watch some of the Disney and Nick shows. Some really good writing there...
A: When television audiences made it clear to networks that their primary interest was in being entertained, not in being subjected to a joke-sprinked sermon instructing them on some network CEO's notion of 'proper behavior'.
I think Fox's Married With Children was a "milestone" in raunchy humor during its time (the 1980s). But as others have said, the process began in the 1970s. Perhaps one could blame the "rural purges" at CBS at the beginning of the 1970s, when fare like The Beverly Hillbillies was replaced by shows like M*A*S*H.
Glad to see someone mention Rural purge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
for it is probably key to understanding anything about current TV. Also consider what Tom Smother's said about humor now:
""I'm watching television and I'm not seeing anything. I watch all the cable shows where you should see some looseness and you're not hearing anything. ...There's a general dumbing down of everybody in this country. ...It just kept going and going until it's gotten to the point where it's all mean-spirited and vulgar. It not only affects comedy, it affects film. It affects literature. It's pervasive on radio. There's that guy Howard Stern and all that smart ass, vulgar, sexual pretending like they're expanding freedom of speech. They ought to put an amendment to the First Amendment that says there shall also be freedom of hearing." (Chicago Tribune interview; November 28, 2002)" (from IMDB)
One other thing. I remember a commercial when the FOX/CBS station switch occurred during the early 90's, showing the kids on the remote control, asking where all the cartoons were (the commercial may have been on the WB). In that presentation, all the afternoon kids shows had been replaced with talk shows. Perhaps, the child's world on TV, regardless of whether or not they ought to be out playing baseball, has been replaced with a constant bombardment of the dirty adult world. Sigh, didn't the Saturday morning cartoons say their last good byes only a few years ago (but really, they have been gone since probably the mid 90's Saturday-morning cartoon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
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